Gentle themes of resiliency, mindfulness, and self-care are brought home in this sweet and soulful picture book with charmingly graphic illustrations and a poetic text.
I love listening to music, especially samba!
It feels like my heart follows the beat.
Meet a young girl who loves her cozy home. It smells like cinnamon tea and feels like warm pajamas. But even when she’s away from home, and everything is different, she finds a way to become her own home, where she feels calm. At night, when it’s too dark and her feet are cold, her room can be a little scary. But she creates her own light when she closes her eyes and thinks of the sun. With friendliness and charm, Juliana Perdomo, in her debut as author-illustrator, shows young readers how to find comfort and confidence within. Her heartwarming picture book reassures children that sometimes, everything we need—courage, joy, peace, and love—is already inside us.
Juliana Perdomo is an award winning author and illustrator from Bogotá, Colombia.
Having a background as a psychologist and art therapist, her work is emotional, heartfelt, personal, folkish, a bit retro and joyful, with a latin touch.
Her authorial debut, Sometimes All I Need is Me, published by Candlewick in 2022, was awarded an Ezra Jack Keats Writer’s Honor and recognized by Bank Street as a Best Book of the Year while the Spanish version, A Veces Yo Soy Too lo que Necesito, was a NYPL Best Book of the Year.